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Faddle vs Raddle - What's the difference?

faddle | raddle |

As verbs the difference between faddle and raddle

is that faddle is to trifle; to toy while raddle is to mark with raddle; to daub something red.

As a noun raddle is

a red ochre or raddle can be a long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.

faddle

English

Verb

(faddl)
  • To trifle; to toy.
  • (UK, dialect) To fondle; to dandle.
    • (Halliwell)
    (Webster 1913)

    raddle

    English

    Etymology 1

    Related to red. (en)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A red ochre.
    • Synonyms
    * reddle * ruddle

    Verb

    (raddl)
  • To mark with raddle; to daub something red.
  • To interweave or twist together.
  • * Daniel Defoe
    • Raddling or working it up like basket work.
    Synonyms
    * reddle * ruddle

    See also

    * ruddy

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) word for "sieve", or perhaps English reed.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
  • A hedge or fence made with raddles.
    • (Todd)
  • An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.

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